AS A PSYCHOLOGIST with more than 30 years experience, I see couples, families and individuals. I begin by getting to know you and the challenges or difficulties you now face. Together we work to discover how to mobilize your strengths to work through ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that are no longer working for you. I attend to the relational, social and cultural influences that provide the context for what you may be experiencing. Together we work to discover new ways of being that allow you to accomplish your goals for yourself and your relationships. Direct and interactive, my therapeutic approach incorporates training in different treatment modalities–including relational, systemic, and narrative approaches– individually tailored to fit the nature of your situation and your goals.
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AS A MEDIATOR for more than 20 years, I work with people who would like to resolve their conflicts collaboratively and avoid litigation or other more formal, protracted, expensive and risky paths to resolution. That does not mean that people typically enter the medication with a shared agenda, nor do they necessarily "get along." Nonetheless, a commitment to conflict resolution that enables the parties to craft their own settlement, rather than having it imposed upon them, can not only produce an equitable, mutually agreeable result.  It can also lay the groundwork for cooperative future interaction.  More...